"This is a tremendous opportunity for us to build our Green team nationally, to represent our state so well, and to actually take the Greens so strongly into that economic space where we have excellent policies and where we're working to present an internally consistent, cohesive and visionary economic narrative for the nation," she said.

In her resignation from politics, Kelly O'Dwyer said she feared another miscarriage in Canberra, far from home. Her announcement is shocking for more than just party-political reasons, writes Emma A. Jane.